A Mysterious Animal.
Recently it was reported m our telegrams that an unsuccessful attempt had been made to blow up a te bunyip" at Koolunga, South A ustralia. This mys«. terious creature was thus described by a resident to a visitor : — '• I hare seen it frequently, but always at night when the moon was up. It looks," he went on, (t something like a fat wether, with a head something like that of a rhinoceros, and a back, either of a shell or short hair." Another man told the visitor it was about as big as a foal two weeks old. It is reported that the natives told the white ..people years and yeers ago that the bunyip (or devil) was m that pool. Many o'd residents of Clare, Koolnnga, and. other places, remember hearing of such, an animal having been seen; but it. was always looked upon as an imaginary creature, or that it could only be seen- by men who were in' that condition of being unable, to discern the difference between a haystack and a meatsafe. - ' ; ; • \
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 37, 19 March 1883, Page 2
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179A Mysterious Animal. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 37, 19 March 1883, Page 2
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